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Family and Consumer Science:
The New Home Economics 

Home Ec. has undergone many changes over the years, the least of which is the name, hoping to make it more desireable for everyone, not just the girls!  Classes in FACS (Family and Consumer Science) are about basic life skills, cooking so you can eat and sewing so you can fix the hole in your pants!  Years ago, Home Ec. was about stitching and stirring, Today we look at where our ancestors are from, where we are going in our lives, and the many stops in-between. 

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How we are learning to make good choices and how much responsibility it is to be a parent through Exploring Child Development. 

How to connect to other cultures, through food as we learn new cooking methods in Multicultural  Foods.  

Basic Lifeskills such as family history, communication, decision making, clothing issues, basics in the kitchen  in FACS 1.

Intermediate Lifeskills like the importance of birthorder, learning styles and Nutrition in FACS 2. 

How we get from Farm to Fashion in Fashion Focus as we explore where fibers come from, learn the basics of knitting and weaving and then on to constructing our own clothing.  Fashion Show possibilities....!

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